Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 6/17

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Neighbors
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"Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly
like people on a sinking ship.
If you live in a large place, there are hundreds.
High and low, rich and poor,
these are future fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Among them you will make lifelong friends.
You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties,
for you will escape disaster together
and you will commence shoulder to shoulder
your common journey.
Then you will know what it means to give of yourself
that others may survive and rediscover life.
You will learn the full meaning of
'Love they neighbor as thyself.' "
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 152-3
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Thought to Consider . . .

Let us always love the best in others -
and never fear their worst.



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B O G G L E = Bad Or Good, God Loves Everyone

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Rescued From Shipwreck
From "There Is a Solution:"

"We are people who normally would not mix.... We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after
rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table. Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways....
"The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd edition: 17

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"Though there is no way of proving it, we believe that early in our
drinking careers most of us could have stopped drinking. But the
difficulty is that few alcoholics have enough desire to stop while
there is yet time."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 32

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




Though many theologians hold that sudden spiritual experience amount to a special distinction, if not a divine appointment of some sort, I question this view. Every human being, no matter what his attributes for good or evil, is a part of the divine spiritual economy. Therefore, each of us has his place, and I cannot see that God intends to exalt one over another.
So it is necessary for all of us to accept whatever positive gifts we receive with a deep humility, always bearing in mind that our negative attitudes were first necessary as a means of reducing us to such a state that we would be ready for a gift of the positive ones via the conversion experience. Your own alcoholism and the immense deflation that finally resulted are indeed the foundation upon which your spiritual experience rests.

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Member Submitted Quote



An AA 'pinnacleer' - Someone who thinks they have reached the pinnacle, the mountaintop, of recovery and can now talk down to everyone else. ( Byron W )

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12 x 12 Quote

"Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all
appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the
decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is
called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost
of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which
is an inscription. It reads: 'This is the way to a faith that works.'
In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection. We saw that we
were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of some
kind, if only in AA itself, is possible to anyone. These conclusions
did not require action; they required only acceptance." (Twelve and
Twelve, Step Three, pg. 34)